Children\'s Qualified Social Worker - Children in Care and Leaving Care

Overview

(Salaries include market factor)

(Salaries include market factor)

Full reimbursement of Social Work England registration fee

Essential Car User Allowance

Do you aspire to work for an ‘Outstanding’ Local Authority?

And can you peel back the layers…? Children and young people are at the heart of all we do. The qualities that are important to them are:

• Understanding that there are layers to a person, a practitioner\\\’s ability to see the person as a \\\”whole\\\”
• The ability to practice care and kindness
• Being able to really listen to children and young people – what are their views, hopes, aspirations and worries?
• The ability to communicate well

Role and responsibilities

Telford & Wrekin Council,

Children’s Qualified Social Worker – Children in Care, 16+ Team • £42,652 – £45,271* per annum (Salaries include market factor)

Children’s Experienced Qualified Social Worker – Children in Care, 16+ Team • £47,362 – £50,339* per annum (Salaries include market factor)

Full reimbursement of Social Work England registration fee

Essential Car User Allowance

Do you aspire to work for an ‘Outstanding’ Local Authority?

And can you peel back the layers…? Children and young people are at the heart of all we do. The qualities that are important to them are:

• Understanding that there are layers to a person, a practitioner\\\’s ability to see the person as a \\\’whole\\\’
• The ability to practice care and kindness
• Being able to really listen to children and young people – what are their views, hopes, aspirations and worries?
• The ability to communicate well

What you will do

Our family are usually the people closest to us, those we care most about. Family life is not just about legal ties – it goes far deeper than that. It concerns our most important biological, social and emotional relationships. We hold the value that children and young people are best cared for by their birth families and extended networks, and this underpins our ‘family first’ ethos. Where this cannot be achieved, we seek to ensure that children and young people’s relationships are maintained in line with their best interests. Birth parents and extended networks are included within the decision-making processes and we provide alternative care which is nurturing and which fosters a sense of belonging.

There has never been a more exciting time to join our service: alongside making a difference to the lives of individuals and families, we have adopted exciting new strengths-based approaches and are passionate about delivering continuous service improvement.

As a social worker for children in care you’ll be looking after and supporting those children who have for one reason, or another been taken into care. So, you\\\’ll be completing children\\\’s plans, attending reviews, you could be attending court, making visits to children, and completing PEPs. But above all, you will bring the desire to work with children and families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it is safe to do so.

Our brilliant practitioners are at the heart of our ambitious approach to improve outcomes for children and families in Telford and Wrekin: from tailored in-house training to the West Midlands Teaching Partnership, we ensure that our workforce have access to the best development opportunities.

Ofsted and evidence

Here at Telford and Wrekin Council, we have been judged to be outstanding overall in terms of effectiveness (the only Authority in the West Midlands with this judgement) for the second time! Here’s just some of the great things Ofsted had to say when they visited us in April 2024:

• Children and families in Telford and Wrekin continue to experience exceptional social work practice when they are in care and as care leavers.
• Participation is a real strength and children’s and families’ involvement is threaded throughout service developments.
• Social workers know their children well and have developed effective relationships with parents.
• The virtual school is a significant strength in Telford and Wrekin.
• Care leavers benefit from an extremely comprehensive and generous local offer.
• Corporate parenting is a strength in Telford and Wrekin.
• The stability of the experienced workforce creates the perfect environment to benefit children and care leavers. As a result, social workers maintain relationships with children who know them over many years, which contributes to children’s feeling of belonging.
• Staff enjoy working in an environment where senior leaders are visible, and they feel valued.

Benefits and other information

There has never been a more exciting time to join our service after the recent publication of our Ofsted Inspection!

If you think you can meet the challenge and would like to find out more about this role, please see our recruitment web pages or contact us by emailing csrecruitment@telford.gov.uk or by calling 0773 142 637. Alternatively, you can speak to Team Manager emma.venables@telford.gov.uk.

Please click on the links below to view the job description and person specification. At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice.

Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check. It is an offence to apply for a role that involves engaging in regulated activity with children and adults in vulnerable circumstances if you are barred from working with one or both of these groups.

A CV template is available if you do not already have a CV. We value our employees and offer staff rewards and plenty of opportunities for personal development and career progression including:

• Competitive rates of pay
• Automatic access to a secure, flexible and tax efficient Local Government Pension Scheme
• Staff benefits and discounts including salary sacrifice schemes
• Free on-site parking
• Generous leave entitlement (24 days rising to 32 days) plus 8 bank holidays and an additional concessionary day
• Free access to our employee assistance programme and confidential counselling
• Flexible and mobile working policy – we are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home – our approach is to promote greater level of flexible working around personal and family commitments
• Private lettings are available from ‘Nuplace’ who give priority to social work professional

Other

Find out further information about working at Telford & Wrekin Council including our full list of benefits. Please note that Telford & Wrekin Council do not hold a sponsorship licence for visas.

Attached documents: Qualified Social Worker Job Description & Person Spec; Experienced Social Worker Job Description & Person Spec